The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1887-02-17
DR.. TALMAGES SERMON.
GREAT THRONGS TO HEAR TIE
ELO UENT DIVINE.

Six Hundred Persons Have Joined This
Church Recently, Making the Total
Membership 4,OOO-The Congregational
BROOKLYN, Feb. 13.-Over 600 persons have
Joined the Brooklyn Tabernacle, pastor the
Rev T. Dewitt Talmage, D. D., during the
present revival making the communicant
membership OF this church about 1000 Pro-
fessor Henry Eyre Browne rendered an organ
solo, second sonata in E minor, by A G.
Ritter. The congregational singing was like
the voice of many waters when the pastor
gave out the hymn:
He that leadeth me; o, blessed thought
words w.Sl heavenly comfort fraughtl
The subject of DR.. Talmage's sermon was
"The Ransomed," and his text was l Cor
iIlthians, vi, 20: aye are bought with
price"
Your friend takes you through his valuable
house. You examine the arches, the fresco,
the grass plots, the fish ponds, the conserve
tories, the parks of deer and you say within
yourself, you say aloud "What did all
this cost2" You see costly apparel or you see
a high mettled span Of horses harnessed with
silver and gold, and you begin to make an cs-
tirnate of the value. The man who owns
large estate cannot instantly tell you what it
is all worth He says: II viii estimate so
much for the house. so much for the furni-
ture, SO much for laying out the grounds, SO
much for the stock, so much for the barn, so
much for the equipage-addng up, in al
making this aggregate"
Wei, my friends, hear so much about
our mansion in heaven, about its furniture
ard the grand surroundings, that I want to
know how much it is all worth, and what has
actually been paid for it. l cannot complete
in month or a year the magnificent calcula-
ton; but before ! get through to-day I hope
to give you the figures eye care bought with
price"
With some friends I went into London
Tower to look at the crown jewels of Eng
laud. We walked around, caught one glimpse
OF them, and being in the procession were
compelled to pass out [ wish that to-day
Could take this audience into the tower of
Gods mercy and strength, that you might
walk around just once at least and see the
crown jewels of eternity, behold their brill
lance and estimate their value. "Ye are
bought with price" Now, if you have a
large amount of money to pay, you do not
pay it all at once, but you pay it by install
ments--so much the 1st of January, so much
the 1st of April, so much the 1st of July, SO
much the 1st VI October, until the entire
amount is paid. And l have to tell this audi
ence that "You have been bought with q
price, and that that price was in different
installments.
The first installment paid for the clearance
of cur souls was the ignominious birth Of
Christ in Bethlehem. Though We may never
be carefully looked after afterward, our
advent into the world is carefully guarded
We come into tho world amid kindly atten-
tions. Privacy and silence are afforded when
God launches an immortal soul into the world
Even the rougdest of men know enough to
stand back. But l have to tell you that in
the village on the side of the hill, there was a
very bedlam of uproar when Jesus was born.
In village capable of accommodating only
a few hundred people many thousand people
we're crowded; and amid hostlers and mule
teers, and camel drivers yelling at stupid
beasts of burden, the Messiah appeared No
silence. No privacy. A better adapted
place hath the eaglct in the eyrie-hath
the whclp in the lions lair. The exile of
heaven lieth down upon the straw The first
night out from the palace of heaven spent i'll
an Outhouse. One hour after laying aside
the robes of heaven, dressed in wrapper Of
coarse linen. One would have supposed that
h
cent. coming from heaven first to a halfway
world of great magnitude, then to Casar's
palace, then to merchants castle in Cali
lee, then to a private home in Bethany, then
t. a fisherman's hut, and last of all to the
stable. MOI 1t was one leap from the top TO
the bottom
Let us open the door of the caravansary in
bethlehem and drive away the cames. Press
or through the group of idlers and loungers.
What, O Mary, no lightl mo light" sne
says "save that which comes through the
door" What, Mary, no foodl "None," she
says, "only that which is brought in the sack
or the journey" Let the Bethlehem woman
who has come in here with kindly affection
put back the covering from the babe that We
may look upon it. Look! looki Uncover
your head. Let us llneel. Let all voices be
lushed Son of Mary! Son of God! Child
OF day-monarch of eternityl In that eye
the glance of a God. Onnipotence sheathcd
in that babes arm. That voice to be changed
from the feeble plant to the tone that shall
wake the dead Hosanna! HOsanna Glory
b. to God that Jesus came from throne to
manger that we might rise from manger to
throne and that all the gates are open, and
that the door of heaven that once swung 10.
way to let Jesus out now swings the other
way to let us in. Let all the bellncn of
heaven lay hold the rope, and ring out the
news: "Behold, bring you glad tidings Of
great joy, which shall be to all people; for
to-day is born in the city OF David, a Saviour
which is Christ, the Lord!"
The second installment paid for our souls
clearance was the scene i'll Quarantania, a
mountainous region full Of cavcrns, where
there are to this day panthers and wild beasts
OF all sorts; so that you must now, the trav-
eller says, go there armed with knife or gun
or pistol 1t was there that Jesus went to
think and pray, and it was there that this
monster Of hell, more sly, more terrific than
al ything that provled in that country
himself, met Christ The rose in the cheek
OF Christ-that Pubius Lentulus, i'll his letter
to the Roman senate ascribed to Jesus-that
rose had scattered its petals. Abstinence
from food had thrown him into emaciation.
The longest abstinence from food recorded in
profane history is that of the crew of the ship
Juno: for twcnty-three days they had nothing
to eat. But this sufferer had tasted month
and ten days before he broke fast.
Hunger must have agonized every fiber of
the body and gnawed on the stomach with
teeth of DEATH The thought of a morsel of
bread or meat must have thrilled tho body
with something like ferocity. Turn out a
pack of men hungry as Christ was a~hun-
Eored, and if they had strength, with one
veil they would devour you as lion kid.
II was in that pang of hunger that Jesus was
nccosted and Satan said: "Now change these
stones, which look like bread, into an actual
supply of bread" Had the temptation come
to You or me under those circumstances. We
would have cried "Bread it shall be| and
been almost impatient at the time taken for
rnastication; but Christ with one hand beat
back the hunger, and with the other hand
beat the monarch of darkness. 0, ye tempted
ones! Christ was tempted We are tolc
that Napoleon ordered a coat OF man
made; but he was not quite certain that
it was impenetrable, so he said to the manu-
facturer Of that coat of mail: "Put it OF
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